A/N: This may be a very terrible chapter, I warn you. Valenil. thanks for
helping me out here on this one. Gave it a good point on it. Well, hope
you all enjoy this chapter that's gonna be really boring, with a capital
'B'. Oh, and I DON'T own Everwood, although it's a great show. Sorry this
one took so long! Work got hold of me and all.
Chapter 3
POV-KARIN
I opened the door to Ephram's house slowly and heard the TV in the living room. I walked into the family room and picked up the small mess in there quickly. It wasn't a big mess, thankfully, but it took me a reasonable time to clean it to my own satisfaction. I surveyed the room from all angles and didn't notice a flaw anywhere, thankfully again. I smirked as I went into the kitchen and retrieved the window cleaner and wood polisher and some paper towels.
I hastily cleaned the windows, but took care to get all of the streaks out. I looked at the coffee table and whipped out the wood polisher and sprayed a small amount on the center and corners of the table and wiped all over, making the pine table look brand new, finished wood. I replaced the cleaning items and stalked into the living room.
"Hi Delia." I said softly as I left the door open and began to pick up in by the TV.
"Hi Karin. How's your day?" She asked me happily.
"It's all right, I guess. How about yours?" I replied.
"Fine. But school was boring, as usual." She told me casually.
"Oh, yeah. Same here." I said as I threw something in the trashcan
"I thought you said you were out of school." Delia said sounding puzzled.
"I am, but I'm taking a course in college for professional writing. I want to be a journalist when I finish that course." I said sounding excited most probably.
"Oh, cool. I want to be one of those people who work at the animal shelters." Delia said with a grin on her face.
"Cool. I don't have any pets. My house is too small." I replied, my voice condescending slightly.
"Oh. We can't have any because my dad doesn't like them, but Ephram wants a dog. I want a guinea pig." A smile was ever growing on Delia's face as she spoke.
"That's interesting. Well, I'm going to go do some dishes, all right? Have fun watching TV." I said after I finished cleaning up the living room and started back towards the kitchen.
I slowly walked into the last room I was aloud to clean and set all of the dishes into one of the tubs in the double sink. I ran the water in the other tub and rolled up my sleeves. As the water ran, a song came back into my head. I grinned slightly as I hummed the tune to My Immortal again since it was still in my head. I sloshed the water slightly as I poured in a small amount of the dish soap and watched the bubbles form in the sink quickly.
~~~ POV CHANGE-EPHRAM ~~~
I walked in the house hearing two things: the TV tuned in to nickelodeon and that Delia was watching it, and the water running in the kitchen, indicating that either mom was home early or that Karin was here cleaning.
I assumed Karin was here from the small amount of a musical tune coming from the kitchen. I followed the heavenly sound and found it led me to the kitchen and the sight of Karin's long, flowing brown hair swaying slightly as she moved from place to place in my kitchen.
"Hi Ephram." She said without turning around.
"How did you know it was me?" I asked, puzzled.
"Well, for one, yesterday, you got home around three-thirty, and it's that time now, two, you didn't say anything to me at first after I heard the door open and shut here and the front door." Karin said, draining the water from the sink and reaching for a dishtowel.
"Oh. You have good hearing." I told her, sitting down at the bar and taking out my French notebook.
I started working on my homework, whilst Karin hummed a lively tune that I didn't recognize, although it sounded tantalizing. I grinned slightly and continued on from French to Algebra.my worst subject in school.
"Karin, I met your brother today at school." I said after a while.
Karin stopped humming and looked up at me from where she had been standing while she cleaned off the counter tops. She winced slightly as she heard it and shuddered.
"You met my brother?" She said, her eyebrows knitted together.
"Yeah. He's cool." I said, hiding my confusion.
"Oh. I didn't know that John had been enrolled in you school. How'd you both meet? Lunch?" She asked me, continuing to wipe at the counter tops.
"That and we have the exact same schedule." I said matter-of-factly.
"Oh. Cool. Well, I'm almost done cleaning, so I guess I'll go after that." She told me in a small voice, quickly changing the subject from her own life.
"All right. You won't stay for dinner again?" I asked slowly and sounding falsely hurt in a sense.
"Nah. I can't today, but thanks though. I have to get home and cook for my family." She replied, packing up her belongings in her pack which was by the kitchen door.
"All right. Then if you don't want to stay here for dinner again, you might want to leave before my mom gets home." I said, arching an eyebrow.
"Okay. Bye Ephram. Oh, and tell Delia I said bye too, please." She said and started towards the door. I argued with myself for a minute with the thought running through my brain before I finally decided what I was going to do.
"Karin." I called after her right before she walked out of the kitchen.
"Yeah?" She asked me, turning around.
"Since you turned down dinner tonight, you want to do something this Friday?" I asked with hope in my heart seeing if it was false.
"Uh.sure! Um, what did you have in mind?" She said.
My heart jumped for joy as I thought, "How about dinner and a movie? I know it's corny, but it's the best I could come up with in five seconds."
"Sure. I'll meet you there, eh?" She said and winked then headed towards the door.
I grinned as I heard the door slam as she left. I heard her car drive off and soon go out of hearing range. I slapped myself back to reality as I remembered the load of homework I had to do before tomorrow. I had a few more problems to do in Algebra, then had to do my English work, then I think I had an assignment in art class, but was a project that I had two weeks to do and would do later. It was an oral report on modern art.
"She said yes." I murmured before getting back to my Algebra.
~~~ POV CHANGE-KARIN ~~~
"I said yes? How could I have done that? Dinner and a movie. Oh, Karin, you're such a dolt! You're going out on a date with your employer's son! His son! Oh, man.what I am going to wear?" I wondered as I pulled into an intersection.
I asked myself plenty of questions like what movies were good, was it going to be a friendly date or a romantic one, what if he tries to kiss me and a whole lot of rot like that. I was in for it. I couldn't tell John or Todd, but my genius little brother already knew that there was something going between us before he even met Ephram or saw us together. John, I hope, didn't scare the poor boy away today by something.
Before I knew it, I was at he turnoff to my house.
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Hey all! Sorry this was so short, but the next one's gonna be good. I'm gonna be gone for a few weeks perhaps, so I'll be writing while I'm down there and be ahead (hopefully). So just hang in there and read my LoTR fic if you like LoTR! Well, God bless all!
All for one and one for all!
~Aramis~
Chapter 3
POV-KARIN
I opened the door to Ephram's house slowly and heard the TV in the living room. I walked into the family room and picked up the small mess in there quickly. It wasn't a big mess, thankfully, but it took me a reasonable time to clean it to my own satisfaction. I surveyed the room from all angles and didn't notice a flaw anywhere, thankfully again. I smirked as I went into the kitchen and retrieved the window cleaner and wood polisher and some paper towels.
I hastily cleaned the windows, but took care to get all of the streaks out. I looked at the coffee table and whipped out the wood polisher and sprayed a small amount on the center and corners of the table and wiped all over, making the pine table look brand new, finished wood. I replaced the cleaning items and stalked into the living room.
"Hi Delia." I said softly as I left the door open and began to pick up in by the TV.
"Hi Karin. How's your day?" She asked me happily.
"It's all right, I guess. How about yours?" I replied.
"Fine. But school was boring, as usual." She told me casually.
"Oh, yeah. Same here." I said as I threw something in the trashcan
"I thought you said you were out of school." Delia said sounding puzzled.
"I am, but I'm taking a course in college for professional writing. I want to be a journalist when I finish that course." I said sounding excited most probably.
"Oh, cool. I want to be one of those people who work at the animal shelters." Delia said with a grin on her face.
"Cool. I don't have any pets. My house is too small." I replied, my voice condescending slightly.
"Oh. We can't have any because my dad doesn't like them, but Ephram wants a dog. I want a guinea pig." A smile was ever growing on Delia's face as she spoke.
"That's interesting. Well, I'm going to go do some dishes, all right? Have fun watching TV." I said after I finished cleaning up the living room and started back towards the kitchen.
I slowly walked into the last room I was aloud to clean and set all of the dishes into one of the tubs in the double sink. I ran the water in the other tub and rolled up my sleeves. As the water ran, a song came back into my head. I grinned slightly as I hummed the tune to My Immortal again since it was still in my head. I sloshed the water slightly as I poured in a small amount of the dish soap and watched the bubbles form in the sink quickly.
~~~ POV CHANGE-EPHRAM ~~~
I walked in the house hearing two things: the TV tuned in to nickelodeon and that Delia was watching it, and the water running in the kitchen, indicating that either mom was home early or that Karin was here cleaning.
I assumed Karin was here from the small amount of a musical tune coming from the kitchen. I followed the heavenly sound and found it led me to the kitchen and the sight of Karin's long, flowing brown hair swaying slightly as she moved from place to place in my kitchen.
"Hi Ephram." She said without turning around.
"How did you know it was me?" I asked, puzzled.
"Well, for one, yesterday, you got home around three-thirty, and it's that time now, two, you didn't say anything to me at first after I heard the door open and shut here and the front door." Karin said, draining the water from the sink and reaching for a dishtowel.
"Oh. You have good hearing." I told her, sitting down at the bar and taking out my French notebook.
I started working on my homework, whilst Karin hummed a lively tune that I didn't recognize, although it sounded tantalizing. I grinned slightly and continued on from French to Algebra.my worst subject in school.
"Karin, I met your brother today at school." I said after a while.
Karin stopped humming and looked up at me from where she had been standing while she cleaned off the counter tops. She winced slightly as she heard it and shuddered.
"You met my brother?" She said, her eyebrows knitted together.
"Yeah. He's cool." I said, hiding my confusion.
"Oh. I didn't know that John had been enrolled in you school. How'd you both meet? Lunch?" She asked me, continuing to wipe at the counter tops.
"That and we have the exact same schedule." I said matter-of-factly.
"Oh. Cool. Well, I'm almost done cleaning, so I guess I'll go after that." She told me in a small voice, quickly changing the subject from her own life.
"All right. You won't stay for dinner again?" I asked slowly and sounding falsely hurt in a sense.
"Nah. I can't today, but thanks though. I have to get home and cook for my family." She replied, packing up her belongings in her pack which was by the kitchen door.
"All right. Then if you don't want to stay here for dinner again, you might want to leave before my mom gets home." I said, arching an eyebrow.
"Okay. Bye Ephram. Oh, and tell Delia I said bye too, please." She said and started towards the door. I argued with myself for a minute with the thought running through my brain before I finally decided what I was going to do.
"Karin." I called after her right before she walked out of the kitchen.
"Yeah?" She asked me, turning around.
"Since you turned down dinner tonight, you want to do something this Friday?" I asked with hope in my heart seeing if it was false.
"Uh.sure! Um, what did you have in mind?" She said.
My heart jumped for joy as I thought, "How about dinner and a movie? I know it's corny, but it's the best I could come up with in five seconds."
"Sure. I'll meet you there, eh?" She said and winked then headed towards the door.
I grinned as I heard the door slam as she left. I heard her car drive off and soon go out of hearing range. I slapped myself back to reality as I remembered the load of homework I had to do before tomorrow. I had a few more problems to do in Algebra, then had to do my English work, then I think I had an assignment in art class, but was a project that I had two weeks to do and would do later. It was an oral report on modern art.
"She said yes." I murmured before getting back to my Algebra.
~~~ POV CHANGE-KARIN ~~~
"I said yes? How could I have done that? Dinner and a movie. Oh, Karin, you're such a dolt! You're going out on a date with your employer's son! His son! Oh, man.what I am going to wear?" I wondered as I pulled into an intersection.
I asked myself plenty of questions like what movies were good, was it going to be a friendly date or a romantic one, what if he tries to kiss me and a whole lot of rot like that. I was in for it. I couldn't tell John or Todd, but my genius little brother already knew that there was something going between us before he even met Ephram or saw us together. John, I hope, didn't scare the poor boy away today by something.
Before I knew it, I was at he turnoff to my house.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hey all! Sorry this was so short, but the next one's gonna be good. I'm gonna be gone for a few weeks perhaps, so I'll be writing while I'm down there and be ahead (hopefully). So just hang in there and read my LoTR fic if you like LoTR! Well, God bless all!
All for one and one for all!
~Aramis~
